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▪ I. bridging, vbl. n.|ˈbrɪdʒɪŋ|
[f. bridge v.1 or n.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb. bridge.
1839Thirlwall Greece II. 252 The bridging of the sacred Hellespont. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 136 The bridging over of the medullary rays by cambium.
b. In Card-playing: see quot.
1879Sporting Exam. 19 Aug. 262 By slightly bending a card—termed bridging—he could force, as it were, his opponent in the game to ‘cut’ the cards wherever he wished.
c. Mountaineering. (See quots.)
1941C. Kirkus Let's go Climbing iv. 56 You are now standing astride the chimney..left hand and foot on the left wall and the right hand and foot on the right wall. You can now climb straight up in the more natural position. This is known as bridging. 1957R. G. Collomb Dict. Mountaineering 35 Bridging, a method of climbing chimneys and corners; it can also be any series of upward movements on a rock face when the legs are astride and the feet are being used on pressure holds.
2. a. Bridges viewed in the mass as so much ‘work’; b. Carpentry. A bridging piece (see 3).
1884H. W. Clarke in Pall Mall G. 5 May 2/2 This sum included—ballast, heavy bridging, station buildings.
3. Comb. and attrib.: bridging-floor, a floor in which bridging-joists are employed; bridging-joist, a small beam or joist of a flooring resting upon the binding-joists below, and supporting the boarding above; bridging-piece, a piece placed between two opposite beams to prevent their nearer approach (Weale).
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 118 When the supporting timbers of a floor are formed by one row laid upon another, the upper row are called bridging joists. 1876Gwilt Archit. §2019 A double floor consists..of..binding joists..bridging joists, and ceiling joists.
▪ II. ˈbridging, ppl. a.
[f. bridge v.1 + -ing2.]
1. a. Constructing or appointed to construct a bridge or bridges. (Perhaps orig. attrib. use of the vbl. n.)
1891Daily News 26 May 3/7 The bridging battalion of Royal Engineers. 1901‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 94 Losing eleven men of the bridging party, and having every pontoon and plank struck by the Boer marksmen.
b. Finance. Providing temporary cover of a debt, etc., pending receipt of cash from a forthcoming sale or negotiation of long-term finance; esp. as bridging loan.
1967J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. (ed. 2) 50/1 Bridging loan, borrowing to make a purchase ahead of receiving payment for a sale as, for example, buying a new house before selling an old one. 1970Which? Mar. 75/1 Many solicitors helped buyers to go ahead, by negotiating a bridging loan. They very rarely charged for this. 1975Economist 12 Apr. 105 An arrangement was made to provide Mr Stern with {pstlg}5½m of bridging finance to buy the whole development. 1982Times 26 Aug. 15/6 Mexico's emergency bridging loan from central banks has again been increased. 1983Times 12 Oct. 21/8 A big bridging operation..looks unlikely. 1984Which? Apr. 161/1 You get tax relief against the interest on a bridging loan of {pstlg}30,000 or less for up to twelve months. 1986Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 June 7/2 Wheeler used the $200,000..as bridging finance.
2. bridging species Bot., one of a series of plant-species on which a parasitic fungus may be trained or adapted to infect species otherwise immune. Also bridging host.
1903H. M. Ward in Phil. Trans. B. CXCVI. 34 A certain species of grass (A) may be capable of infection by means of spores from two other host-plants (B and C), neither of which is predisposed to reciprocal infection, though both may be infected from such a ‘bridging’ species (A) as is referred to above. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXX. 478/2 ‘Bridging species’. Ibid., ‘Bridging hosts’. |